Episode 06: Revival of Traditional Seafaring in the Marianas
Through interviews with master navigators and their students, Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua discusses how, beginning in the 1980s, CHamorus began to relearn the ancient seafaring skills lost here to colonization — and how the revival of these traditions goes hand-in-hand with the CHamoru Renaissance and decolonization movement.
This is a two-part episode. Parts I and II are available to stream below.
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Episode Anchor: Michael Lujan Bevacqua
Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua is Curator of the Guam Museum and a community scholar who specializes in Chamoru history and the teaching of the Chamoru language, the indigenous language of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. He is from the Kabesa and Bittot clans of Guam. Bevacqua also hosts the Fanachu! Podcast, a decolonial current events and academic critique podcast based in Guåhan. He and his brother Jack have a creative company called The Guam Bus, which produces books, comics, and language materials focused on telling Chamoru stories and teaching the Chamoru language.
